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After playing prostitute-turned-blockbuster porn director Candy Merrell on HBO’s gritty ’70s/’80s NYC crime drama The Deuce, portraying a Kindergarten teacher who yearns to become a poet in Netflix’s The Kindergarten Teacher “was the next step” says actress Maggie Gyllenhaal.

And by “next step”, the Crazy Heart supporting actress Oscar nominee means a project that “is an articulation of me”.

While Candy maneuvers and rises to a position of control on The Deuce amid the